Who eats my buffers?! (kernel leaks memory?)

[Christian Hammers <ch@westend.com>]

Hello

I have a serious problem. One of the servers I administrate seems to 
have a buffer leak. free and vmstat show me that the buffer size
increases by some K every second leading to a 15M memory loss per hour.
I'm currently running a PII with 256M RAM and kernel 2.2.15 (latest).

I've stopped all unvital processes (except ssh as I did it remote) and
it still leaked :-(

Any Idea how to find the memory eater? I would you suggest me to do
another kernel update to 2.3.99pre17?

Or is it even a normal behaviour for the kernel and it stops somewhen?

Background is that it crashed on it's first day in production service with
a out-of-memory error displayed at the console - after two month working
idle in test mode. After that I upgraded this morning from 2.0.36 to 2.2.15.
I can't tell how exaktly the buffer behaviour was in 2.0.36 :-(


Help!

 -christian-

-- 
Linux - the choice of the GNU generation.          Join the Debian Project 
                                                     http://www.debian.org 
Christian Hammers * Oberer Heidweg 35 * D-52477 Alsdorf * Tel: 02404-25624
50 3C 52 26 3E 52 E7 20  D2 A1 F5 16 C4 C9 D4 D3  1024/925BCB55 1997/11/01